Published : 2025-12-21

‘I Love Him as My Own Son’: Correspondence Concerning the Pardon of Władysław Siła-Nowicki

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Historical biographical research uses a wide range of source documents, which also includes correspondence. A specific form of such correspondence concerns petitions for pardon, sent to the Civil Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland between 1947 and 1952. The article presents the correspondence regarding the pardon of Władysław Siła-Nowicki and demonstrates its potential for use in historical research and in constructing biographies.

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Władysław Siła-Nowicki, pardon, Bolesław Bierut, correspondence, Stalinism, biography



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Rzeczkowska, E. (2025). ‘I Love Him as My Own Son’: Correspondence Concerning the Pardon of Władysław Siła-Nowicki. Biografistyka Pedagogiczna [Biographical Studies in Education], 10(3), 527–555. https://doi.org/10.36578/BP.2025.10.62

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"Biografistyka Pedagogiczna" received funding for the years 2022-2024 from the funds of the Minister of Education and Science under the programme „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”.

Project duration: 2023-2024.

The amount of co-financing is 65 992,00 PLN

Contract number: RCN/SP/0434/2021/1